• Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – Live Stream

    Thank you for your interest in the live web-stream for Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – a conference organised jointly by the University of Brighton and Medact. […]


  • Sessions from Health in Action 2014

    Sessions from Health in Action 2014

    Opening session and welcome 1. Welcome Gill Walt, Medact Patron and LSHTM 2. Medact, HPA and this conference David McCoy, Medact Director 3. Launch of Global Health Watch 4 Ron […]


  • Judith Anderson – The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

    Dr. Judith Anderson speaking in 2014 at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Summit, organised by the Oxford Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The Psychology of Climate Change DenialWatch this video on […]


  • The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHS

    TTIP and the NHS – the story of a cancer patients journey to Brussels   The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHSWatch this video on YouTube


  • Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses – VIDEO

    Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses – VIDEO

    The facts about poverty and its root causes do not stop our political leaders telling us how generous we are to Africa. Of how much they care about doing something […]


  • Protect and Survive

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  • Beds not bombs – highlights from the Medact archive

    Elena Carter, project archivist at the Wellcome Library, gives a tour of the newly-catalogued archive of Medact.   Beds not bombs – highlights from the Medact archiveWatch this video on […]


  • Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?

    Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?Watch this video on YouTube


  • Combat and the Campus

      A discussion on the ethics of university research and nuclear weapons with Jonathon Porritt, Andy Blowers, Christopher Watson, and David McCoy. Held at University College London on 12 February […]


  • David Woodward – “Between the Rack and a Hot Place: Can We Reconcile Poverty Eradication and Tackling Climate Change?”

    About the lecture By any reasonable definition, the majority of humanity is on the rack of poverty; and a major obstacle to its eradication is the growing threat of extreme […]